Hi, On Thu May 14, 2015 at 22:02:18 +0000, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi, > > during todays monthly board meeting, we were talking about book keeping. > One of the topics that i came up with (after the meeting), is to make > the book keeping more 'transparent' and to show to associated projects > that we are processing their financial requests in a correct way. > > One way to do that could be to do an anual audit of SPI's financial > records by someone who is not involved in SPI's financial process. My > idea of that process is as follows, but i think we should discuss that: > > During the AGM a contributing member not being part of board is assigned > to do the audit. During the now following year she/he will be able to > request copies of the book records, which the treasurer will provide in > a timely manner. During the now following AGM this contributing member > reports back that she/he thinks that the books are okay (or not). > > What i describe here is a usual process for nonprofit association in > Germany. The audit report is a basis for decisions the General Assembly. > The treasurer and the entire board of the association are to be > relieved. This report protects the treasurer (and the board) against > claims for compensation (unless the treasurer fooled the auditor). >
Is this really a non-issue, or why did i not received any feedback on the general mailing list? Cheers, Martin -- Martin Zobel-Helas <zo...@spi-inc.org> Software in the Public Interest, Inc. | Member of the Board of Directors GPG Fingerprint: 6B18 5642 8E41 EC89 3D5D BDBB 53B1 AC6D B11B 627B _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list Spi-general@lists.spi-inc.org http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
